Is Web Scraping Legal?: An Update
An update to our 2018 article about the legal risks of scraping data from third-party websites
Is Web Scraping Legal?
Can Internet companies protect their public data from being collected and used by competitors?
When Does Something Become Public Domain?
How do you know whether a movie, book, musical composition or any other type of creative work is in the public domain?
The Costume Copyright Conundrum
Happy Halloween from Knowmad Law!
How to “Copyright” Your Work
Like “trademark,” it’s better not to think of the word “copyright” as a verb. Copyright is something that you have or you don’t. But when...
Don't Talk About Our Tree: Pebble Beach's Lone Cypress Trademark
If you’re a Central Coast trademark lawyer, it’s not long before someone asks you about the Lone Cypress. The Lone Cypress is an iconic...
Post and Re-Post: When Is It Ok to Share Someone Else’s Content?
Most of us don’t think twice about sharing a news article on our Facebook timelines, re-posting a cat gif to our Tumblr blogs or pinning...
HBO's Silicon Valley: a Legal Critique - (Part Three)
In this final installment on our series about HBO’s Silicon Valley, we return one more time to the legal entanglements that challenge...
